On
DRC As UN Guterres Refuses To
Answer Who Was Killed and Who
Raped UNSC Meets
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video here,
Vine here
UN
GATE, Dec 5 --
Stephane Dujarric,
the lead spokesman
of UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres, and
now Guterres'
Global
Communicator
Melissa
Fleming have
joined their
boss in
personally
covering up
child rapes
and sexual
abuse by UN
personnel,
including
recently a
child rape by
a UN
"peacekeeper"
from Paul
Biya's
Cameroon in DR
Congo.
On December UN
Security
Council
members, only
unaware of
Guterres'
censorship of
Press and
corruption if
they insist on
pretending to
be, will
purport to
meet about DRC
with LaCroix,
the sixth
Frenchman in a
row to head UN
Peacekeeping.
Lacroix has
done nothing
to have there
be
transparency
about the
sexual abuses
committed by
his troops -
this is a war
crimes -- and
doesn't even
defend his own
soldiers.
On
December 5
Inner City
Press in
writing asked
Dujarric and
Fleming for
information
about the
peacekeeper
found dead, at
least the
nationality.
Nothing. This
is selling out
peacekeepers,
to say nothing
of the UN's
crimes against
those it is
supposed to
protect. And
the complicity
is spreading.
We'll have
more on this.
On November
25, when
Dujarric lied
and said he
was only asked
that day about
Mike Bloomberg
quitting the
UN in order to
run in the US
when Inner
City Press
asked him and
Guterres and
Fleming and
Soto Nino in
writing on
November 11,
and he said on
camera
that he
answers, Inner
City Press
also asked
these on the
DRC:
"November
25-1: On DR
Congo, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that
residents in
DR Congo's
volatile city
of Beni set
fire to the
local town
hall and
accused U[N]
peacekeepers
of inaction
after eight
civilians were
killed
overnight in a
militant
attack, an AFP
reporter
said.
Army spokesman
Colonel Mak
Hazukai
confirmed the
latest
casualties in
the city, near
the Ugandan
border,
telling AFP
that "the
enemy entered
the Boikene
quarter and
killed eight
civilians."
Incensed
locals then
partly burnt
the town hall
and then moved
towards the
camp of the UN
peacekeeping
mission in the
Democratic
Republic of
Congo
(MONUSCO) on
the outskirts
of Beni,
accusing it of
inaction.
November
25-2: Also on
DR Congo, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that the
Dutch
development
bank FMO is
accused of
funding human
rights abuses
in connection
with Feronia's
palm oil in
the DRC?"
Dujarric, who
said
on camera he
was answering
Inner City
Press'
questions, has
not answered.
But a
younger
spokesperson Dujarric
has trained
and apparently
corrupted,
Mathias
Gillmann, who
carrying
this record of
non-responsive
censorship to
MONUSCO,
issued a
statement, which
in ever
dwindling
respect we
publish: "In
response to
questions
received today
on the
situation in
Beni, this is
what we can
say,
attributable
to Mathias
Gillmann,
MONUSCO
Spokesperson
a.i.
MONUSCO calls
for calm and
responsibility
as violent
protests
continue in
Beni. The
Mission Office
in Beni was
damaged after
an attack and
staff was
redeployed to
another
site.
At the
invitation of
the
Government,
the Special
Representative
of the
Secretary-General
in the
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo,
Leila
Zerrougui,
attended today
a National
Security
Council
chaired by
President
Felix
Tshisekedi,
with ministers
and military
leaders.
She stressed
that she
understood the
anger and
frustration of
the population
after further
deadly attacks
by the ADF.
However, she
noted that
attacking the
Mission's
facilities and
those of the
local
authorities
only weakened
the fight of
the Armed
Forces of the
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
against the
ADF.
The Mission
will
strengthen
cooperation
with its
partners and
work closely
with the
authorities to
jointly find
solutions for
the people of
Beni.
MONUSCO also
expresses
concern about
the
dissemination
of wrong
information
and calls for
violence on
social media.
It calls on
all political,
religious and
media actors
to support a
return to
calm,
necessary both
to the fight
against ADF
and to the
essential
continuity of
the Ebola
response.
Unity, calm
and
determination
must guide us
to put an end
to the
criminal and
cowardly
actions of the
ADF against
the civilian
population."
When Dujarric
send an
answer, we will
publish it.
For now, he is
a stone liar.
Even under Ban
Ki-moon, the
UN talked
about human
rights due
diligence.
Inner City
Press before
being targeted
and ousted by
Guterres for
its question traveled
to the DRC,
Goma and
elsewhere. Under
Guterres that
is gone - it
is a matter of
using some
countries
troops, then
staying silent
when things go
wrong.
They
have also
refused to
answer in any
way Press
questions
about Biya's imposition
of life
sentences on
his opponents,
apparently
liking no due
process life
sentences
themselves.
On the morning
of August 27
Inner City
Press in
writing asked
Guterres,
Dujarric,
Fleming and
others: "On UN
sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information
supplied about
other cases in
the past about
the cursory
update this
morning
listing a SEA
case by a
Republic of
Congo
(Brazzaville)
peacekeeper at
MINUSCA in
CAR. This
information
was provided
in the past,
before you
banned Inner
City Press
(which
re-applied on
August 24,
2019 to cover
the UNGA high
level week).
Also, again,
what is
Guterres'
answer, which
you refused to
provide after
banned Inner
City Press
asked you and
others in
writing on the
morning of
August 19 that
you
"immediately
provide all
if-asked and
additional
information
about the new
allegation of
SEA announced
at 11:01 am
today, of
child rape by
a Cameroonian
"peacekeeper"
in DR Congo,
and a separate
child rape and
also sexual
exploitation
by Gabonese
peacekeepers
in CAR, as
well as the
previously
unanswered
question about
exploitation
by Tanzanian
peacekeeper -
and also why
previously
published
charges are no
longer in the
data to which
UN
Peacekeeping
Conduct and
Discipline
points,
including what
if being done
for these
victims and
any steps
taken to avoid
this constant
repetition of
abuse despite
the SG's
ostensible
commitments.
Again, are new
allegations
being buried
elsewhere on
the data page?
Inner City
Press is
asking in
writing
because banned
from the noon
briefings and
any follow up
questions, now
for more than
a year. On
August 24
Inner City
Press
re-applied for
admission to
cover the UNGA
high level
week.
Yesterday as
before none of
Inner City
Press' written
questions,
including on
Cameroon, have
been answered.
This is a
request that
you
immediately
confirm
receipt of
these
questions and
requests. "
But five days
later there
has been no
answer,
including
after a
desultory noon
briefing by
Soto Nino on
August 30 when
Dujarric like
Hua Jiang went
on another
vacation. But
their and
Guterres' UN
sent this out:
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un.org
Date: Fri, Aug
30, 2019 at
4:23 PM
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To: Inner City
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Greetings
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from Inner
City
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Your media
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This is
Kafka-esque,
and corrupt.
We will have
more, much
more, on this.
At
the August 9
UN noon
briefing from
which Guterres
and Dujarric
banned Inner
City Press for
the more than
400th day,
Dujarric said,
"from Tuesday
to Friday next
week, my
office will
not hold daily
noon
briefings, but
I understand
Monica will be
here.
The office
will be
staffed, and
we will be
able to answer
your
questions."
So on the
morning of
Tuesday,
August 13
Inner City
Press asked
again, in
writing,
including to
Guterres'
incoming
Communicator
Melissa
Fleming:
"August 13-3:
On UN sex
exploitation
and cover
up(s), as
Inner City
Press asked on
August 9
without any
response to
day, This is a
Press request
that you
immediately
provide all
if-asked and
additional
information
about the new
allegation of
SEA announced
at 12:01 pm
today,
apparently of
SE by a
Tanzanian
"peacekeeper"
in DR Congo -
and also why
previously
published
charges are no
longer in the
data to which
UN
Peacekeeping
Conduct and
Discipline
points,
including what
if being done
for these
victims and
any steps
taken to avoid
this constant
repetition of
abuse despite
the SG's
ostensible
commitments.
Again, are new
allegations
being buried
elsewhere on
the data page?
Inner City
Press is
asking in
writing
because banned
from the noon
briefings and
any follow up
questions, now
for more than
a year. Today
as before none
of Inner City
Press' written
questions,
including on
Cameroon, have
been answered.
This is a
request that
you
immediately
confirm
receipt of
these
questions."
Again, as
Dujarric's
office closed
on August 13,
no answers, no
response. This
is the UN's
cover up of UN
sexual abuse,
and it's now
on Melissa
Fleming as
well. Guterres
and Dujarric
corrupt
everything,
and everyone,
they touch.
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